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3109. A multi-dimensional assessment of circular technologies in agriculture waste management

Invited abstract in session WC-23: New technology for sustainable supply chains, stream Circular Economy, Remanufacturing and Recycling .

Wednesday, 12:30-14:00
Room: 82 (building: 116)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Patrizia Lombardi
DIST, Polytechnic of Turin
2. Elena Todella
DIST, Politecnico di Torino
3. Timothée D'Amico

Abstract

Agriculture emerges as a major contributor to global anthropogenic emissions, such as waste production and greenhouse gases, and to resource depletion, such as water and land, requiring a transition from a linear to a circular approach. According to the WWF, the agricultural sector consumes about 69% of the planet’s fresh water and the FAO estimates that the livestock sector alone is producing about 14,5% of all greenhouse gas production. Agri-food is among the most relevant manufacturing sectors in Italy. In this context, a large-scale and multi-disciplinary research program has been funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, named AGRITECH, The National Centre for Agricultural Technologies (https://agritechcenter.it), with the aim to promote innovation and technology transfer. A large research area of this program focuses on circular waste management and multi-dimensional sustainability assessment. This study is part of this research area and focuses on orange peel waste (OPW) management processes. It proposes a critical review and selection of the KPIs to assess alternative technologies of OPW management, and a preliminary application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to rank such alternatives.

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Status: accepted

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